The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
NEBRASKA sustained loss of $4,000 900 from
Texas cattle fever last year

Texas cattle fever last year.
A GRANITE tower, sixty feet high, has been
adopted as the design of the Portland (Nie)
soldiers monument"
THERE are suits amounting to millions pend
ing against New York elevated railroads for
damages by obstruction of light and air.
ONLY one woman voted in the recent school
election in Sparta, Wis and the Female Suf-
fragists of the Northwest are in Respondent
mood.
In the English Australian colonies there are
not only more males than females, but the ten
dency seems to be in the direction Of increasing
the disproportion between the sexes
y CONVENTION of the National Colored Press
will be held at Louisville, Ky, Aug. 8. There
will be reports and discussions on Power of the
Negro Press and on the Religious, Educational
and Social Status of the Negro"
A NEW GERMAN DIALECT has been discovered
in Kaiser Williams land The natives speak
German, but F becomes B, while II and f are
totally dropped. MOltke becomes MotSeki, and
Kaiser Wilhelm, Kaisar Weileim
TAE clergy of Pueblo, Mexico have collected
over $500 600 for the coronation of the Virgin of
Guadalupe next December. 1t is estimated
that the total contributions of all the Catholics
of the country will amount to 81, 100000.
WHEN burglar awoke a young lady in Port
land, Me-, lately, instead of putting a pistol to
ner nead ne Kissed her ana sad: Keep sun,
sis, won't hurt YOU Then he took his bundle,
containing everything that was portable in the
house.
Mrs PARKER, of Dundee, Scotland, the
founder of the British Womens Temperance
Association, is going to bring 1000 Scotch
women to California to be domestic servants.
And the editor of the San Francisco Alta says:
We will guarantee good place to one maid of
Dundee if she can cook haggis''
THE Village Improvement Society of West
borough, Mass, has put in practice an idea
which may yield rich results in the develop
ment of neatness. Large baskets have been
placed in the corridor of the post office, and
there are conspicuously displayed printed re-
quests that people, instead OF throwing en-
velopes and newspapers on the floor or side
walks will drop them in the baskets.
ONE of the hens of John Aldrich, of Nauga-
tuck, while devoting all her energies to Matching
out lot of eggs was taken sick and died. The
rooster of the flock Immediately took her place,
and has now been sitting on the nest of eggs for
nearly three weeks He daily leaves the nest at
a certain time bristles up and clucks as natur-
ally as any old hen, and to all appearances and
purposes is a fulfedged mOtherly old hen
THE fortress of Gibraltar is declared to be no
longer impregnable. The armament of the
famous stronghold consists almost entirely of
old-time smooth-bore guns. There is not a shell
gun, or machine gun, or quick-firing gun of
any kind on the rock, and only two torpedo
boats of questionable value for water service.
Any lrOnclad could knock the whole face of the
rock to pieces without receiving a shot in re-
turn, SO far as the fortress is concerned.
THE ancient coronation chair at Westminster
Abbey, the shrine of the traditional fragment
of rock upon which Jacob rested his head at
Bethel, THE stone of destiny" of the Irish kings,
brought by Edward l. from Scotland and ever
since used as the throne of succeeding English
sovereigns, has been ''restored'-the missing
portions having been replaced with new work,
and the parts smeared over with brown paint to
give them spurious semblance of antiquity.
DURING a recent severe thunder storm near
Bechtelsville, Pa, lightning struck a gypsies
camp, and two young gypsy girls, who were sit
ting under tree, were Frustrated by the shock.
They were terribly burned about the body and
blood oOzed from their wounds. The injured
girls were laid in one of the large wagons,
where they are slowly recovering The girls
were Sophia and Jennie Stanley members of
the great Stanley tribe Of gypsies, and very
beautiful.
AS regards accuracy of detail ben Hur"
stands in the front rank of historical novels A
curious slip, however, occurs at the beginning
of book 3, where the author speaks of the trav-
eler in the year "a being able to see the ''Smok-
ing cone of Nesuvius. 1t was not till 20 A D.
that Vesuvius again became active. Since that
period NeSuviuS has undergone great changes.
1t is probably higher now than ever before.
Indeed, from 1915 to 1868 it is said to have in
creased in height over 300 feet.
JOSEPH GRAY of Trail Creek Township, No,
is 1929 years old He was born in Virginia,
Jan. 10, 1885, has been married sixty-five years,
is the father of eleven children, cast his first
vote for Thomas jefferson, has always voted
the Democratic ticket, never smoked in his life,
has chewed tobacco since he a small boy,
has always used liquor in moderation, was
never drunk in his life, has been a member of
the Methodist church for over seventy five
years, and is still quite vigorous.
A MAN near London recently made a bet that
he could kill, clean, cook, and eat a spring
chicken in fifteen minutes. Preparatory to the
contest he secured the chicken and provided
himself with pot of boiling water bucket of
cold water, hot skillet, and hot fat-iron.
When time was called he jerked the chickens
head off, doused it in pot of boiling water
slipped the feathers off, cleaned it, and then
laid the fry fiat in the pan, with the fat-iron on
top to cook the upper side At the close of
eleven and a half minutes he had the chicken
bones beautifully polished.
PRESIDENT CABLE, of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad, and its directors
have recently returned from tour of inspection,
on which they made remarkably fast time. The
tram consisting of locomotive, baggage car
and two official cars left the Missouri river at
a. m. saturday, arriving at Chicago at .. m.
the same day, making the entire run of 500 miles
in exactly thirteen hours, or average of IS. 46
miles per hour, including stops One run Of Al
miles was made in forty-eight minutes, and an
other of 9S miles in eleven minutes.
LAST SPRING two wrens began housekeeping
in the lattice work of the porch of n w Dutton.
Of Lewiston, Me. They were made welcome
and so well treated that other wrens came there
TO live also. There are now over twenty in the
little colony. The other day a cat appeared in
the yard whereupon the wrens set up great
chattering. Mrs. Dutton went out to sea what
was the matter, and when she appeared the
birds flew to her and perched on her head and
shoulders and arms apparently knowing that
she would protect them from their enemy.
THE continued action of the wind on the sand
bluff at Union Pier Mich, recently uncovered
the skeleton of an Indian squaw, apparently
buried there long ago. About the wrists were
two pairs of bracelets made of metal of silver
and copper mixed, and by the head a pair of
earrings of the same material and q gill or
more of small beads apparently made from
bone and some kind of shell. The pieces of
metal contained sufficient copper to form a
thick coating >Of verdigris. There was also a
round iron box about three inches in diameter
and an inch deep, but entirely eaten by rust
and wrapped about it n covering of some coarse
cloth, the threads of which were plainly seen i'm
the rust.
THE other day." says a Boston correspond
ent of the Minneapolis Tribune, "a countryman
from Cape Cod sought out the office of Zion's
Herald, which is near the top of a large build
ing in Bromfield street one of the upper small
rooms, whose location is not readily learned
from the street signs. He was looking for 'NIr
Zion He had been a reader of the paper for
wears without parting from the fallapV that Zion